'The Shack' opens doors for self-published author

saltwn · #1 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 03:58 AM

'The Shack' opens doors for self-published author - USATODAY.com

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A little novel written by an Oregon salesman and self-published by two former pastors with a $300 marketing budget is lighting up USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list with a wrenching parable about God's grace.

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First-time author William P. Young's book The Shack, in which the father of a murdered child encounters God the Father as a sarcastic black woman, Jesus as a Middle Eastern laborer and the Holy Spirit as an Asian girl, is No. 8 on the list.

Published a year ago and promoted by snowballing attention on Christian radio, websites and blogs, The Shack ($14.99) is now in mainstream bookstores and Wal-Marts nationwide, and the trio behind it are talking to Hollywood about a possible film deal.

Hope for self publishers. But it was a one in a million shot.
Still, I would love to see the movie with God as a sarcastic black woman.

Spencer Collins · #2 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 04:06 AM

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Still, I would love to see the movie with God as a sarcastic black woman.

Whoopi Goldberg or Ester in All In The Family?

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Still, I would love to see the movie with God as a sarcastic black woman.

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Originally Posted by Spencer Collins

Whoopi Goldberg or Ester in All In The Family?

Nope...There can be only one...

Florence...The maid on the Jeffersons...

saltwn · #4 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 04:25 AM

I'm actually hoping they don't pick Oprah Winfrey. I read The Color Purple and looked forward to her performance (cause I kind of thought of her when I was reading it), but then I was dissappointed. I'm not sure why. But I think she would be wrong for this part.

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